Like everyone else in the field of disability in India, I’ve been waiting eagerly yet with trepidation for the Census takers to come to my house. Getting the number of people with disability right is so vital for so many reasons. I [...]

How many times have I felt like this? That could be Moy Moy: peacefully asleep in my arms, oblivious to all, secure in the knowledge that Mom is there, that Mom has everything under control and I am safe. And that could be me: pensive, [...]

Here’s Lakshi (again). OK, so I am a little besotted. But there she is in my kitchen every morning and my garden every afternoon. Last night she saw I was serving cake to some guests and she crept into the living room, snagged a piece and [...]

Can there be anything more delightful than finding a child at your window, just inches below the sill and eye-level with your desk, peering in at you – you, so seriously engaged, all hunched over your laptop and thinking about really [...]

  What was I thinking? It wasn’t a sudden decision. It wasn’t a decision taken after long and careful thought. It wasn’t a decision at all. It was an order from on high, delivered in no uncertain terms by God’s Own [...]

Well, maybe I have a few more things to say about going grey. It wasn’t actually a sudden decision. I first began thinking about it when my oldest friend – Martha Rose – came to India for a visit last year. Like me, she had [...]

This is how I looked six months ago. Long (by my standards) hair. Dark brown. I am over 50 in this photo and with my family inheritance, there is no way my hair can be this color naturally. Dad was completely white by the time he was 35; Mom was [...]